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......oh.........GREAT PHOTOS dTel !! Enjoyed those long exposures

Forgive yourself for whatever decisions you had to make. I leaned that here at this forum and its really true. Not always easy coming into this world and its not always easy to leave it either. Thats just the way it is regardless of any decisions we make.

Me to, I hope he is OK, is he just busy, working or traveling ? so much for paying attention.......... Have a good time and be careful, my favorite time out on the beach is late at night when it much less crowded and I can try to get some pic's.

Morning gang.... a good Saturday to all.... I'm Here Chuck Was at the shop late last night working on Emma's Civic (youngest daughter).... Didn't get home till after 10:00.... Still got to get the car to the alignment shop, do that next week sometime. Today The BOSS and I will be working on the new office at the house... got my new/used desk from CL...it's really nice....and the guy we got it from was very nice. The BOSS spoke with him over the phone and he said he'll take $75 for the deck.... Had it listed for $100...... Anyway when we got there he was very excited to meet me... The BOSS told him that we had a shop and I had been working on Asian car's for 30+ years... He has two Toyota's.... a Camry and a Tacoma. He Told me he it tired of being taken advantage of and has been looking for a new shop. He helped me load the deck and he didn't take a penny for it..... He said "just speaking to you guys I can tell your good people and the desk is yours" Well ok then..... that's cool.... good karma.... Well The BOSS is yelling at me.... looks like we getting ready to dismantle the office..... I'll check in later... Give me a minute I'll load a few pics of Emma's Civic... MKP :-)

Good evening everyone................it is LATE here in the east (12:30AM!) Olympic flame has JUST been illuminated !! Thanks Chuck for dropping by RTM tonight! (Friday), we had a blast playing our new Bruce Hornsby LP on BLUE vinyl... Me in the east, Mossy on the Pacific North coast! Saturday, I will be headed for Rhode Island to Pezz's home for our M.A.D. (Music Appreciation Day) listening to all formats of audio via his very nice audio setup. I will be posting from there, so keep tuned for that... Time for bed.......see you then.. ...........Gary

The sea turtles will play hell getting past that row of chaise lounges.

Always easy to second guess decisions that are difficult to make in the first place. Near 20 years later, I still reflect at times to decisions I have made or let other family members make regarding my mother's care. Sometimes it is not easy. Thanks for the sharing...

Dang, Wish I was missed! But then guess I would be hit... Will read back a few pages to see what' happening...

As you’ve probably heard, there is a move afoot to preserve Paul W. Klipsch’s legacy remaining with Klipsch Group, Inc. I say “remaining” because New Mexico State University obviously has a large portion, and the estate of Valerie Klipsch undoubtedly has a considerable portion. The portion remaining at Klipsch is due in large measure to Paul’s pack rat tendencies. He and the company were as near synonymous as one could imagine for over four decades. Things continue to surface in “nooks and crannies”. In late March, discussions with Christy Luquet got around to the topic of “What happens when Hunter is gone?” This was a result of discussing my impending retirement at the end of this year, as well as my efforts to at least “thin down the herd” of museum holdings in order to make room to locate the paper archives within that building. You know, get all the old crap in one place! Ms. Christy (as you might imagine) suggested that Klipsch should donate the building and contents to a charity that we should form. On 3/31/2016 we held our first exploratory meeting. In attendance were Christy Luquet, Kevin Harmon, Travis Williamson, Dave Mallette, Marshall Muros, Jeff Matthews, Matt Sommers, and me. The “working group” (WoG) for the development of the Klipsch Heritage Museum Association, Inc. was born. Over time the WoG has seen a few members added and/or “retired”, but all contributed considerably while they were involved. Those three are Marshall Muros, Frank Dudek, and Roy Delgado. The past four months have seen an incredible effort by the WoG and Klipsch Group, Inc. to establish something that is every bit a business venture. In this relatively short time we have established our “Mission, Vision, and Goals”, an impressive Board of Advisors, a 20-page set of by-laws, incorporation, and all but a couple of positions on our executive committee and Board of Trustees. On 7/13/2016 the WoG had its final meeting. My 7/20/2016 letter of appreciation to the WoG follows: Direction of the KHMA continues under our Executive Committee: Jim Hunter, President Kevin Harmon, Vice President (President of Vice, as PWK would say) Christy Luquet, Secretary TBD, Treasurer (we do have a couple of leads) with Travis Williamson, Legal Counsel Our Vision statement reads: Our vision is to foster interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics through the examples of Paul W. Klipsch. Our mission: The Klipsch Heritage Museum Association’s mission is to restore, preserve, maintain and display Klipsch and Klipsch-related artifacts and archival materials for historic purposes, as well as to conduct pertinent research and to host educational activities and events. Keep an eye on www.klipschmuseum.org. It is just a place-holder currently, but Luther Ward and Chad Wells (Klipsch Group) have big plans under development. Tax exempt status from the IRS will be solicited shortly, which, with approval, will allow us to indicate that your contributions will be “tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law” as Travis would caution us! Until then we will limp along financially. And if you’re in the neighborhood, come see us at the Hope Watermelon Festival August 11-13!

I'm working on the lightning stuff and making some headway! Bought an AC control board off Ebay and swapped out my bad one. Dish Network replaced my receiver. swapped out my bad ice maker only to discover voltage going to ice maker not correct. Main board suspect. swapped out Blu-ray power supply and its back to working. Still plenty to do.

Of all the anomalies that may be present in the gear and the room, I agree that imaging will be a primary attribute that suffers. Or to say it the other way around, imaging is a first victim of problems (or inadequacy) of the gear or room. Imaging may be the best gauge, but it may not be the only canary in the mine... but perhaps it is... Imagery and dynamics are closely tied. If the imagery is correct I think that requires the dynamics be correct as well. Maybe inferior dynamics presents a "flatter" presentation of an otherwise well imaging system/room, whereas getting the dynamics better might present some depth and body to the objects of the imaging... more spatial presentation... advancing from a "movie" to a "play", from a 2d presentation to a 3d presentation. So getting the dynamics right may not get best imaging, but when the imaging is right that implies that the dynamics (and a whole host of other things) are right. So I think I agree that imaging quality is the key, and likely the last of a series of unlocking of the system/room potential.

Actually JL, I was replying to richieb on a previous page and guess I got too creative with my computer skills. Appreciate the sentiment though, as in my reply to richieb. Maybe good that I post here as little as I do...

Mornin' gang....where ya'll at??

OK; usually I just ignore superstitious discussions about wire. But this has gone on for so long that I just have to comment. First: Connections make orders of magnitude more difference than wires. You can have the most amazing unobtanium wire in the universe, and if it is poorly crimped or soldered to the connectors, or if the connectors are oxidized and don't make a good solid connection to the components, there might be a measurable or perhaps even audible difference. On the other hand, if you have good crimps or solder joints, then even lamp cord will sound pretty good. Once you have good connections and good wire, it's all a matter of resistance, capacitance, and inductance. Resistance is related to the material and its cross-section; capacitance and inductance are related to the cable geometry. Second: Six feet of power cord won't make diddly squat's worth of difference. But a power conditioner that provides stable, pure sinewave power with large current capacity might. It wasn't until I started working in the power industry that I understood that there is non-60 Hz (50 Hz in some places) energy in the power line, used for data transfer. A well-designed power supply shouldn't have any trouble with it, but if you remove it before it gets to your audio equipment, it becomes a non-issue. http://www.utility.org/smart-meter-questions-and-answers/

A larger gage power cord can make a difference, especially with components that draw a lot of current like power amplifiers. Installing an isolation transformer to supply balanced AC power to audio equipment will make a difference in noise rejection. AC regenerators or UPS units will deliver clean AC power, but not any better than a balanced power hookup. Pretty much everything else is bullshit.

It sounds like it's not the burn ward you need to be released from...

It's OK it just slows them down a little which makes it easier to catch them to bring to the BBQ pit.

Oh sheet, I was almost right about something, I need to bookmark this and go tell the wife, she will be surprised ! And she thinks I never pay attention, accident's happen.

Happy Friday, guys. Grass cutting day. That's as exciting as it gets for this old fart today. Will probably continue to polish up a couple old Jackie Wilson songs on the B-3 too. Good stuff. Yeah ..people come and go. I dropped off for a while when I had health issues a little while back. Chuck and Mark (Tarheel/MKP) were good friends to me and made sure I was ok. I'm grateful to them. You really can make friends here and friendship is something we should hold onto. Have a good day everyone. Chuck

Well I couldn't resist got these on Ebay for the fraction of what they normally cost this makes 4 DBH218's 2 passive 2 powered.

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Once the imaging problems are fixed, I find other capabilities begin to become factors: 1) Smooth coverage from wall to wall without a prominent "sweet spot", and without loss of low frequencies below ~50 Hz as you move laterally. 2) Good performance at the back of the room (40 feet back) and up to within a metre/yard of the front face of the speakers without loss of timbre and imaging. 3) Good room reverberation/specular decay performance without slaps from boundary reflections. This is a function of the size of the room and the acoustic treatments as well as coupling the loudspeakers to the room without midbass suck-outs due to front and side wall cancellations, i.e., pulling the loudspeakers significantly away from the front or side walls that introduce the "Allison effect" (...actually, it's more like the Paul Klipsch effect since he wrote about it almost 20 years before Allison). Chris

Yes, and he knows that. Going to put in some Crites CT120's.

True, but how many of us are using such large horns? Bill's trick may work much better on an old pair of Heritage speakers. The tractrix mids in the forte II, Chorus II, for example, are quite a bit hot on axis compared to a K-402. In those cases, it does indeed work.

All this time, I thought you were just a cry-baby...

That's funny! Denise and I are past all that and when I tell her that I bought a new, this or that, she just says, "you're nuts" and I say "OK" and we go on with our lives.

It looks similar to the Ev hp940.

One thing I have learned over the years is to partition your hard drive so that only the operating system is in a partition all its own. Use the other partition(partitions) so installing all your other programs and data away from the OS. This will save all other stuff away from the OS so restoring it is much easier.

Will do, the tech has it now, but he is backed up on work. It may be a week or two before I get my detailed quote.

Nice pick up -- congrats! If those are the same ones I saw for sale this last weekend, you got a great deal.

Sorry to hear this, it sounds like he lived a good life, we could all be that lucky. 80 years and his family that close, he did well.

The satire ward worked wonders!

Sounds like it's one thing you should NOT be doing ?

Killing it.

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Very true, he's right, all decisions at these times are not easy even if you know it's best. Sometimes there are no perfect answers and you just have to do whatever's best overall, no reason to feel as what was said is true . " I believe was the cause for her give up " She had many more years of living than you, she knew what was going on and I would bet she would not be happy knowing that you thought that.

Just an FYI - I removed that forum area and moved all the topics that were in it into other forum areas related to their subjects. Thanks

Morning gang... Coffee going down nice.... 2nd cup under way.... Will be working on my youngest daughters 99 Honda Civic today... putting on a new set of tires and some new headlights. The old headlights are so yellow and cloudy it's hard to see at night. Over the years I have reconditioned them three times... It's just time for a new set... We got this Civic from one of our customers a few years back. I've been working on this car since it had approx 75K on it. It's now got something like 326K.... Original engine and transmission and it's rust free. Several months before our customers sold us the Civic they put on a new set of Michelin tires on it. So it was a no brainer when they asked us if we wanted the car. It really had no trade value, but I knew this car inside and out.... and they didn't want money$$$ they wanted shop credit.... Yup was a good deal.... and I also really think they enjoy knowing there Civic went to my daughter. Yea.... the forum thing..... I HATE change.... it gets me all worked up, I wish things just stayed the same (that's not a dig at the new forum)..... Just things in life.... Years ago when cars were changing from carburetor to fuel injection.... I was all twisted up..... what kind of BS is this crapp.... Now some thirty years later it's the norm... If there's one thing that stays the same is...... "Everything changes"..... OK... that's all from me for now....gotta roll.... a good day to all... MKP :-) Yea I also miss BigStewMan

Agree with all the above. I really miss bigstewmans posts. He cracks me up. Looking forward to the opening ceremonies tonight and leaving for vacation tomorrow. WOOOOOP!!!!!

I did the poor man's version of the aluminum trim. I simply took 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/8" angle and cut it beveling the corners. I have a fab shop at work and this stuff is laying around everywhere. You can get it at most hardware stores. Where are you located. There a dozens of places near St. Louis that stock it. I used stainless steel screws and a little Locktite adhesive caulk (clear) to hold it in place. Probably about $20 worth of aluminum. (Sorry for the sideways photo, new format ya know)

This is where it's important to know the safe word.

So romex with plug ends is audiophile now?

Christy is going to list all of those involved up to know, but to keep that history alive and secure for another 75 years is going to take some effort from a lot of people from this Forum. KGI has been so gracious and generous in trusting us with the first factory building and the artifacts. It is up to those who admired PWK, his company and his products to carry the Legend forward. Travis

I called a local vintage audio gear technician, and I'm bringing the receiver to get a quote tomorrow.

Adding more wire doesn't do anything positive and one good amp sounds better than two. Passive biamping is a waste of money.

Awesome great find. I can tell you these make a great center channel speaker. I have 4 Heresy 1's with a HIP II as the center channel. This works out great since the HIP speakers really (re)produce great vocals and that is what most of the center channel is. I generally have to set it about -2 or -3 db down from H1's since it is a tad more efficient. Laters, Jeff

Congrats! I had a KG2.2 center with my Heresy III and then with Quartets. It matched quite well and worked great!

I'll need to get a better pic, but the system is coming together! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hope that was a cool experience for both you and your son. I believe the hole-punched picks were used during the show...

One thing I would like to see us add to this, is proper packaging when shipping via UPS, FEDEX, or USPS. I have used all three companies with great success. I feel most of the time you see damaged goods, is when the shipper doesn't properly package the item. Maybe Willand will post some pics of good examples, I have heard he does some of the finest packing jobs. Some thoughts on packaging, I have all ways tried to line a good heavy box with 3/4" or 1" solid foam you purchase from most hardware stores. It usually runs about $20.00 for a 4x8 sheet. After recently receiving my McIntosh box, I have some better ideas how to ship receivers, amps, pre amps, etc.. On that note, I would highly recommend factory shipping cartons when possible. Two of the most recent brands that I have purchased factory cartons for are McIntosh and Bryston. McIntosh MC2505 2-3 week lead time cost was $55.00 shipped Bryston 2b-lp 1-2 week lead time cost was $65.00 shipped. I think this thread could be very helpful for those who contemplate shipping goods, regardless of size.